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Do you use your editors? was RE: wording for training materials
Subject:Do you use your editors? was RE: wording for training materials From:Shea Michael EXT <Michael -dot- Shea -dot- extern -at- icn -dot- siemens -dot- de> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:24:41 +0200
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Mr. Margulis ponders...
But in a Theory Y organization, or anywhere that the editor is seen as a colleague providing a service to the writer, I can't see that a disagreement of this type constitutes insubordination or any other sort of corporate sin.
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This brings up a question or two for me. I have often heard anecdotes about editors who were nit picky or writers who ignored comments from others.
Do you (the reader) use your editors (when you have them)? That is to say, do you find them generally useful or do you prefer to do your own editing? Do you see them as colleagues or as a nuissance?
I have always preferred to work with an editor than without one (Hi Chris! Hi Nan!). I find that having someone make me justify my decisions, helps me to produce better documentation.
I bet there is an editor list out there with a monthly discussion of: the writers are ignoring my edits. What do I do? Kind of like us trying to get information out of reluctant engineers.
-Michael
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